Prime Highlights
- Jordan’s Siraj reached 1M+ students and 100K teachers.
- Slovakia educators saved roughly five hours weekly using AI.
Key Facts
- OpenAI develops ChatGPT, used by millions globally.
- Nine countries now partner under this education initiative.
Background
OpenAI is pushing its agenda of AI technology adoption into classrooms around the globe. With a view to embedding such tools within education processes, the company has initiated its next phase of Education for Countries in partnership with governments of different nations. This program entails training teachers, localization of AI applications such as ChatGPT, and measuring their effectiveness on learning outcomes.
Eight countries signed on for the first round: Estonia, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, Trinidad and Tobago, Kazakhstan, the UAE, and Jordan. Each country runs its own pilot, tailored to local needs.
Estonia put ChatGPT Edu in front of more than 20,000 students and 4,600 teachers. Local universities are studying the results, and findings will be shared openly. Jordan built its own AI tool called Siraj, which has now reached over a million students and 100,000 teachers. Kazakhstan pushed AI readiness training to 84,000 educators, most of whom called the tools genuinely useful. In Slovakia, teachers at universities said the tools cut their weekly workload by roughly five hours. A government team there also used AI agents to speed up drafting official teacher standards.
Singapore recently joined as the ninth partner. The country already ranks high on AI adoption among young people, and the new agreement targets AI literacy, personalised learning, and workforce readiness. OpenAI will work alongside Singapore’s Ministry of Education and its technology agency, running workshops and hackathons to help teachers lead the change rather than simply follow it.
OpenAI is now accepting applications from new country partners and plans to launch a program called OpenAI Luminaries, built around educator co-design and resource sharing.
